HEY! I'm here again. I know most author's don't post everyday, but I'm not most authors. I'm my own breed of author. I always post once a day unless I'm gone somewhere. Enjoy this intense chapter.
"Are you sure this is the best idea?" Penny turned to DB, who was smiling.
DB nodded and replied, "Camping is the best way to stay undetected. And don't worry. I have everything taken care of."
"what do you mean?" Penny leaned forward in her chair.
"Classified. I will say that you won't have to worry about the feds coming to your house anytime soon." DB put his hands behind his head and took in a deep breath. "I enjoy the outdoors. I can't get enough." He had a look of pure bliss.
"Well, at least you don't have to worry about breaking any of the equipment that keeps us in contact with the organization, since I'm the one responsible for pitching that tent!" Tim was furious, since he was the only one setting up the tent that held their technology.
DB simply shrugged. "I told you. I really don't care if that gets put up. I would rather not even have it. All we need is over there." He motioned to a crate that was about as tall as him. "We got food, shovels, fire starter, and stuff for eating and cooking with. Then, some axes, for getting firewood."
Tim glared at DB. "What if we were to be attacked by the feds, or worse, those we had to warn Penny about!?"
DB shrugged. "Well. If the feds attack, it just gives them some stuff they could possibly have if we were unable to fight 'em off. If those four attack, We really have nothing we could do either way. They would be able to take us out faster than backup could arrive. So, it's really just extra weight right now." His voice had no worry in it. In fact, it was just matter-of-factly.
Penny was confused by his reaction. "How are you so calm about it?"
DB chuckled. "why worry about something you ain't got no control over? I just want to enjoy this while I can. Do you know how long it's been since I've camped? I mean, really camped?"
Tim answered from the tent he was raising. "It hasn't been a month yet."
"Exactly! That is too long for me to go without the fresh air of the woods without having to run for my life." DB leaned forward in his chair. "If I could choose between continuing to lead the organization, or camping every weekend, I would choose the camping, if I could be promised not having to worry about those four doing any damage. I love working with the organization, but it takes a lot of time and I am sometimes unable to go camping when it gets planned. Camping is one of the many highlights in my life that I have to sometimes put on hold because of the organization." DB sighed and went back to his origianl position. "So, I'm gonna enjoy this as long as I can."
"YES! Finally got it up!" Tim threw a fist in the air.
"Are you sure you got it good?" DB didn't even look his way.
"Yes. I do." DB smirked as he picked up a pebble that was about half the size of a horsefly and tossed it at the tent. It gently hit it, and the tent collapsed. Tim let out a whine. "Why is this so hard!"
Penny got up and went over. "Let me help."
"But, you don't have a high enough security clearance to do so." Tim stepped in front of the tent to stop Penny from getting to it.
"Hey, Tim." DB just looked at the fire pit as he spoke. "Bring me a laptop."
"Yes sir." Tim opened the tent flap and brought out a laptop and handed it to DB. DB started typing on it. A few seconds of doing so, he turned it off and handed it back. Tim took it and put it back.
"Now, let her help." DB shifted in his chair and closed his eyes for a nap.
"Guess he raised my security clearance. So...How much more will I have access to?"
"Well. You'll be able to look at our training and recomend people for a raise in their security clearance. But, it will only be those that are lower than you in clearance." He then mumbled something under his breath and began to blush slightly.
"What was that?" Penny leaned in. Tim just mumbled again, blushing even more. "Still didn't catch it." She leaned in even more. Tim again mumbled what he said. Penny sighed, before an idea came into her head. She smirked and quickly gave him a kiss on the lips. "Now, what did you say?"
"I said that you now have access to the main base and you can even come into my office." He had a goofy smile on his face. He let out a goofy laugh before he continued. "you are the only civilian with that high of a security clearance. Also, you are only allowed into my office because of my personal preference." A sock was then thrown into his mouth and he began talking through it, but you couldn't understand what he said. Penny turned to DB.
"He was about to give out information that you aren't allowed to know. You had some good thinking, though with giving him a kiss." DB chuckled. "He is going to keep talking until he has said everything he knows, so just get to work on the tent."
"Alright." Penny started to set up the tent as Tim continued talking through the sock.
Penny's home
Bolt, Mittens, Rhino, Penny's mom, and the cat/dog hybrids were all left at the house. Someone had come in to impersonate Penny while she was gone. She was currently working on Penny's homework, when the dorr was opened by feds. the fake Penny stood up to say something, but warrants were thrown in her face, keeping her quiet.
After about an hour search, the lead officer came to the agent impersonating Penny and said, "Well, for someone who has nothing to hide, you sure didn't want to let us in. Why is that?"
"I just wanted to make sure my constitutional rights were being upheld." She crossed her arms and had a frown on her face.
"Yes. Well, you now have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law."
"Wait. What!? What did I do!?" She was furious now.
The officer chuckled. "Please. We know you aren't 'Penny' but an agent from the organization. Arrest Mrs. Forrester for aiding and abbeding a fugitive. Take the pets too. We might as well use the little pests for testing to see how they were able to reproduce." The officers started to go to work, but an alarm started to sound. "What's this?"
The impersonater smirked. "I thought you would have known about the defense systems. Fire at all hostiles!" Guns came out and started shooting at the officers, but only tazers were firing, so the officers fell and were twitching. She leaned down to the one that had tried to arrest you. "How do you like them apples. Oh and, uh..." she pulled her hands out from behind her back. "We've all been trained in how to unlock handcuffs from behind our backs." She then started to deliver a kick, only for the alarm to go off and taze her. The pets decided it would be best to leave. So, they headed off, Bolt leading the way as he sniffed out where DB, Tim, and Penny had gone.
campsite
An alarm went off on DB's watch. He clicked it and a holographic image came up with a message. "Well, seems as though the defense systems were needed. And they were even used on our agent. She should have knwon not to try to attack while in the house. Oh well." He then continued reading, when his eyes went wide. "Also, your pets have all escaped and are most likely heading for us. That is not good in more ways than one."
"What do you mean?" Penny turned away from the tent when DB said that.
"Well, I mean that Diablo could try something to get them."
And I'm stopping here. I was right, wasn't i? It was "in tents". I just had to make that pun. Bad joke. I know. Review.
